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PRACTICE FOCUS

Mr. Conley is Co-Managing Principal of the Philadelphia office and the founder of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice Group. His broad legal experience includes insurance coverage litigation, and general litigation. He exclusively represents policyholders, including closely held, publicly traded, nonprofit, and municipal entities, with claims against their insurance companies. His insurance coverage law experience includes handling coverage actions on behalf of insureds relating to claim under general liability policies, bad faith claims, defense obligations, law and ordinance exclusions, crime coverage, employment liability coverage, and coverage for data loss and environmental liability.

Mr. Conley's commercial litigation experience includes representing clients in cases involving breach of contract, abuse of process, trademark and copyright infringement, and unfair trade practices. Mr. Conley has also served as an expert on insurance related matters in both Pennsylvania and Maryland.

POINTS OF DISTINCTION

Mr. Conley was selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list from 2012-2018. His primary area of practice is Insurance Coverage.

He has also been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America publication, a ranking completed by peer review, from 2010-2018 as reported by U.S. News & World Report.

Ranked as a Band 3 lawyer in Insurance - Pennsylvania, Chambers USA, 2015-2018.

He was named to the Greater Philadelphia's Legal Elite list in 2010 and 2011, which is a readers' poll conducted by Philadelphia SmartCEO magazine.

He is a former in-house Counsel for Belmont Holdings Corp.

PRESS

As an insurance recovery attorney, Mr. Conley is frequently quoted on insurance coverage legal issues, and has spoken before regional and national business and trade organizations.

"Discovery in Bad Faith Insurance Claims: State of the Law, Successful Strategies," Insurance Law and Litigation Reporter, and the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications, Philadelphia, PA (May 10, 2007)

PREVIOUS WORK

Prior to joining Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law, Mr. Conley was co-managing shareholder of Anderson Kill's Philadelphia office and a senior shareholder in its Insurance Recovery and Corporate and Commercial Litigation Departments. He was also head of the Philadelphia Business Group and chair of Philadelphia's Commercial Litigation Group.

AWARDS

*Michael Conley was selected to the 2018 Super Lawyers list. The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found here.No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

*Michael Conley was selected to the 2018 Best Lawyers list. The Best Lawyers list is issued by Woodward/White, Inc. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.